Life happens!

It’s been a particularly challenging year for me as I’m sure it has for many of you. My strength and endurance have been tested, by feelings constantly accosted, my faith questioned and my resolve frequently wavering. I’m learning that the difference between knowledge and understanding is experience. The snapshot of this year has seemed dismal to say the least but the operative word is seemed; because as I watched helplessly as the hurricane called life ferociously made its way through my circumstances that was all I saw. What life seemed like was my reality but the reality is that life happens to everyone. Life brings change and it comes in many different ways to everyone! In my ah-ha moment I awakened to the fact that just like death, Life does not discriminate who it happens to and how it happens but that one thing is guaranteed-Life happens. While many things have changed some things have stayed the same- I still love reality shows, I still have a love-love relationship with food, I still don’t give a rodent’s behind what anyone thinks about my life. In the grand scheme of things it hasn’t been such a hopeless year and while life may have dealt me a few blows of chaos, it’s gifted me with many moments of thankfulness. I am thankful for family, food, friends, music, health, food, family, music, (repetition intended) alone time, weekends and holidays, warm hugs, a genuine smile, a baby’s face, reality TV, the wind blowing through my bald head, humanity, family, food and the very gift called life. I wish you many moments of thankfulness- Happy Thanksgiving!